If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our grandparents," physicist Yu Hamada explained.

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.

MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.

Tungsten alloys, specifically, provide "grain boundaries [that] serve as sinks for radiation defects," per Nature. Meanwhile, ...

Researchers show electrical control of quantum interference in atomic spins on surfaces using a scanning tunnelling ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be ...

Engineers have long followed Moore’s Law, doubling the number of transistors on silicon chips roughly every two years to pack ...